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brm_473176 - MACRINUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 480.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 480.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: juin - juillet
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,09 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan ovale avec un beau buste de style fin. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection AJRR et de l’electronic auction 302, n°402 de CNG
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG .
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Macrin à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois-quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus" (L'empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRITAS TEMPORVM.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) assise à gauche, tenant de la main droite un sceptre et le bras gauche, soutenant sa tête appuyée sur le siège ; à ses pieds à gauche, un autel paré et allumé.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Temporum” (La Sécurité des temps).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Très beau portrait inhabituel de Macrin.
Historical background
MACRINUS
(11/04/217-8/06/218)
Macrin was born in 164 in Cherchell in Mauretania. He is not a senator, but a knight, of indigenous (Moorish) origin. Procurator of the "res privata" (private fund of the Emperor) of Caracalla, he then became prefect of the Praetorium from 212. After the assassination of Caracalla on April 8, 217, he was acclaimed emperor on April 11. He will never come to Rome and remains in Antioch. He deifies Caracalla, but exiles Julia Domna, who lets herself die. He takes the title of Severus to rally the supporters of the Severian family to him and gives the prænomen of Antoninus to his son, Diadumenian, promoted to Caesar. Trying to conciliate everyone, he runs into the army, which misses Caracalla. Soldiers quartered in Emesa proclaimed Elagabalus on May 16, 218. Defeated in June, Macrinus fled. Hearing of the death of Diaduménien, he tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from his chariot and is finished off by his own soldiers..
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